Collections of ludic dialectal materials in the phonogram Archive of the institute of linguistics, literature and history of the Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences

The article presents the first-of-its-kind overview of the Ludic dialectal audio materials stored in the Phonogram Archive of the Institute of Linguistics, Literature and History of the Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Science (Petrozavodsk). The records have been made by the members of the said institute since the 1960s. The aim of this article is to describe the dialectal materials collected by A. P. Barantsev in the 1960s and the 1970s and by V D. Ryagoev, N. G. Zaitseva, I. I. Mullonen and others in the 1980s. The work originality is that these materials have never been described before. The materials of the Ludic collection have scientific, cultural and historical value for researchers and include not only samples of the northern, middle and southern Ludic dialects and the dialect of Mikhailovskoye village, but also some toponymic, folklore and ethnographical data. The material for the analysis was extracted by continuous sampling from the inventory of Karelian-language materials of the Phonogram Archive of the Institute of Linguistics, Literature and History of the Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Science and summarized in the tables. The studied source may be of interest to a wide range of specialist, including linguists, folklorists, historians and ethnographers.